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Re: [Patch] virtual consoles switching disabling
From: Hannah Schroeter (hannah
schlund.de)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 10:52:30 CST
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Hello!
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:54:17PM +0200, Alexey Vatchenko wrote:
>Hannah Schroeter wrote:
>> Frankly I see not much sense in this whole thing at all. Root can
>> disable logins, and besides that, why shouldn't authorized users be able
>> to login?
>It's useful when you are logged in on several consoles and don't want to
>lock(1) (or xlock) each console... Now you have to `lock -pn` on every
>console.
I think the price tag for that convenience is too high (DoS against
other legitimate users, especially even root!). There's screen or X.
And if I use startx, I do it this way: >>startx & lock -np<<, and for
xlock, I've got a keyboard shortcut.
Kind regards,
Hannah.
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